DUWK sinks with loss of life.

[robpage]

Think you'll find that passenger ships and passenger boats on inland waterways that carry more than 12 people which these dukw have to do required to comply with the MSN 1823 passenger ship regulations which is about a 250 page document , considering that fully loaded these things are about five or six ton I believe you gonna need an awful lot of buoyancy tanks in them to hold them up properly

[happy daze john in oz]

According to the mother in a news broadcast today she claims the captain told her the life jackets would be too big for the children so do not use them>
Not the sort of message you would expect in such circumstances.

Saw one of the in Oxford Street London a couple of years ago, not floating but going by wheels, it was an advertisement for the river tours on them.

[John Arton]

Growing up in the Lake District, one of my school summer holiday jobs was to assist the owner of a number of rowing boats on Lake Windermere to hire them out to tourists, taking there money and pushing them off from the shore. This was in Bowness on Windermere and on the lake about half a mile off was the only inhabited island on the lake. The person who lived there was an ex ww2 army guy, who by all accounts was a bit of a dodgy guy with rumours about jewerrly from an Italian countess that she had given him for safe keeping, going astray. Living on an island meant he needed a boat to get to the shore where he kept his car garaged, that he used for shopping trips and visits to the pub, no breathalysers in those days. As having to maintain both boat and car, which was an expensive deal even in thosen days, he purchased one of the first DUKW cars to come on the commercial market. You can imagine the suprise and consternation he caused the first time he drove it off the road, through a crowd of locals and tourists, over the beach and into the water before chugging off to his island.
Rgds
J.A.